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title: The antecedent is the noun a pronoun points back to; a pronoun is am… — Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who · tree and pragmatics
description: The antecedent is the noun a pronoun points back to; a pronoun is ambiguous when it could point to more than one person. Who acts: antecedent, pronoun. A sentence of the lesson «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who, sentence 19

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The antecedent is the noun a pronoun points back to; a pronoun is ambiguous when it could point to more than one person.

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**Who acts:** antecedent, pronoun · **What happens:** be, point · **To what, where:** noun, one person

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (antecedent, pronoun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:19
# text = The antecedent is the noun a pronoun points back to; a pronoun is ambiguous when it could point to more than one person.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	antecedent	antecedent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	points	point	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	ambiguous	ambiguous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the antecedent | the noun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **point** | present | a pronoun | the noun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noun=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | a pronoun |  |  |  |  | ambiguous *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **point** | could | pronoun |  | one person |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to person=Recipient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:005-pronouns-i-me-you-they-and-who.lesson:19`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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